Adding placeholder text

…In this video, we're going to take a…look at adding placeholder text to your wireframe.…And the reason you're going to be using placeholder…text quite a bit, is because you're not going to have…actual text and the point is really just to…see how text is going to look in the design period.…It probably is not going to be even the typeface you're going to use.…So, it's really just to get a sense of where things are on the page.…So, let's go up to File and choose New…and just stick with the default settings and click OK.…Just so long as you're using the web profile.…

And, unfortunately, in Illustrator there is no placeholder text generator.…So you really have to know where to look for it, and the…easiest way to know is to really be familiar with the phrase lorem ipsum.…Filling in placeholder text, since early desktop…publishing, has often been called Greeking text.…But for whatever reason, even though it's called…the Greeking text because we can't read it, so…it's Greek to us, but it's actually Latin…text and it always basically begins with Lorem Ipsum.…

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3/11/2014

The UX Design Tools series connects early UX creative processes—like wireframing and prototyping—with the tools and techniques necessary to create a successful product design. Illustrator is one of those tools, noteworthy for its type tools, spacious artboard, libraries of reusable artwork, and clean vector lines. In this course, Justin Putney shows how to use symbols to take advantage of reusability, organize your artwork into layers, use artboards to design different wireframes for multiple screens and different application states, and export wireframes to share with clients and developers.